Jacob Ross

Jacob Ross is a novelist, short story writer, editor and creative writing tutor. His crime fiction novel The Bone Readers won the inaugural Jhalak Prize in 2017. His literary novel Pynter Bender was published to much critical literary acclaim and was shortlisted for the 009 Commonwealth Writers Regional Prize and chosen as one of the British Authors' Club’s top three Best First Novels. His book Tell No-One About This is a collection of stories written over a span of forty years, including from Song for Simone (1986) and A Way to Catch the Dust (1999) and more than a dozen new ones. His novel Black Rain Falling was published in 2021. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been a judge of the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize, the Olive Cook, Scott Moncrieff and Tom- Gallon Literary Awards. Jacob is Associate Fiction Editor at Peepal Tree Press, and the editor of Closure, Contemporary Black British short stories.